Recent content by smm

Took 4 back from the Sierras today and encountered a novel situation. The stop sign at Farmington had caused a mile or two of slow/stopped traffic. Several cars (3 Volvos) repeatedly passed stopped traffic, jumping back in line as required to avoid oncoming traffic. Nice? Certainly not. Safe...

Mod Edit: Other thread here. Lots of good suggestions here. I think that the X% on the street criteria is batted around by experienced riders a bit too casually. Read in the basic sense of "slow the fuck down" X% is perfectly sensible, but if your sight lines are down under 2 seconds X% and...

"Why are we stopping here? This is a BMW dealership. I'm a Suzuki. It has been only 1500 miles since my last service. That's odd, he's going to the sales department. But there's no room in the garage for another bike, he'd have to keep it outside... omg, OMG, OMG!! I'm going to be... sold! Sold...

So here's a little urban ride that tries to string together as many of San Francisco's twisty mountain roads as possible. Worked pretty well this morning...

So I'm riding back from Clear Lake (Butt's Canyon, Howell Mountain Rd, fantastic) and get stuck in traffic on 121 from Napa to Sonoma. Just one lane each way so I'm cooling my heels but after the third motorcycle passes me on the right I decide to give this lane-sharing-on-the-right thing a...

So it is a couple of months until the rainy season and I am about a third of the way through a couple of Pirelli Diablos. Does anyone have any experience with riding on these in the rain? I've heard a couple of bad reports so I'm contemplating a switch back to Avon Viper Strikes for the rainy...

So after viewing the ghastly head-on crash video, I'm curious about how everyone else experiences target fixation and freezing. My own experience is that, with a little practice, it is perfectly possible to look around while cornering. There certainly is a tendency to "go where you look" but...